release

oaky, okay, okay. i know you are probably pretty sick of this pink tulip. but today is march 1st. march-f’ing-1st. the day i turn in my manuscript. the day i get released from my computer. the first day of meteorological spring. and you don’t know this (perhaps i have been a little distracted) but it also the day my husband turns his manuscript into his publisher as well. my book is a STILL book, of course. his book is a family, food, and wine memoir of our families time in southern france. our original deadlines were not the same day, but my husband was granted an extension, and so our deadlines both landed on march 1st. march 1st. i’m just going to keep saying march 1st all day today. because i have been waiting for march 1st for weeks months.  anyway, this little tulip sat beside my computer monitor and kept me company this past week. the trapped leaf that finally pulls itself free feels symbolic.

pink tulip bulb opening